That Third Guy : A Comedy from the Stalinist 1930s with Essays on Theater / Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ; translated and edited by Alisa Ballard Lin ; foreword by Caryl Emerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krzhizhanovskiĭ, Sigizmund, 1887-1950, author.

Contributor:

Emerson, Caryl, writer of foreword.

Lin, Alisa Ballard, editor, translator.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Krzhizhanovskiĭ, Sigizmund, 1887-1950--Criticism and interpretation.

Krzhizhanovskiĭ, Sigizmund.

Drama--History and criticism.

Drama.

Theater--Philosophy.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018]

Summary:

This collection of theater writings by the Russian modernist Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky brings his powerful, wildly imaginative vision of theater to an English-language audience for the first time. The centerpiece is his play That Third Guy (1937), a farce written at the onset of the Stalinist Terror and never performed. Its plot builds on Alexander Pushkin's poem "Cleopatra, " while parodying the themes of Eros and empire in the Cleopatra tales of two writers Krzhizhanovsky adored: Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw. In a chilling echo of the Soviet 1930s, Rome here is a police state, and the Third Guy (a very bad poet) finds himself in its dragnet. As he scrambles to escape his fate, the end of the Roman Republic thunders on offstage.The volume also features selections from Krzhizhanovsky's compelling and idiosyncratic essays on Shakespeare, Pushkin, Shaw, and the philosophy of theater. Professionally, he worked with director Alexander Tairov at the Moscow Kamerny Theater, and his original philosophy of the stage bears comparison with the great theater theorists of the twentieth century. In these writings, he reflects on the space and time of the theater, the resonance of language onstage, the experience of the actor, and the relationship between the theater and the everyday. Commentary by Alisa Ballard Lin and Caryl Emerson contextualizes Krzhizhanovsky's writings.

Contents:

Part I. Krzhizhanovsky on theater

Part II. That third guy

Part III. Krzhizhanovsky on Shaw and Shakespeare

Part IV. Krzhizhanovsky on Pushkin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Container of: Krzhizhanovskiĭ, Sigizmund, 1887-1950. Tot Tretiĭ. English.

ISBN:

9780299317133

0299317137

OCLC:

1040694763